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Travel Blogs from Elounda

... clouds on the mountains and on the way back to camp the sun disappeared, however it didn't rain. The whole of Crete seems to be picking olives at the moment, as we have been driving around we have noticed groups of migrant workers standing in strategic places in villages, outside the church seems to be a favourite. They must hang about waiting to get hired. Every so often there are ...

... was very nice, he gave us a very large bag of very large tomatoes and explained where every thing was. There are two other campers on the site,which fronts the 'best beach in Crete' so the sign says! We parked up avoiding the small lake or is it a large puddle that the other two campers are parked around. We put the washing into the machine and then have tea. Tomorrows forecast is for sunshine, that will dry the ...

... if the cove there us a house tucked back from the sea. We parked in front of the small lake where we could hear a loud animal sound, it sounded like a very loud cricket, after some research we decided that it was a Cretan marsh toad. We walked went for a walk through the olive groves, for an hour or so. When we got back we could hear several of the toads all making a loud noise, it sounded as if they were competing with each other. We thought they would keep us awake all ...

... a few smaller speed boats and yachts and some children just back from sailing were washing off a their of toppers, We walk back around to the harbour and decided it would be a nice place to stay for the night. Tomorrow the town will be open and we can explore further. I forgot to mention in yesterday's blog, we will need to find somewhere secure to park Dream Catcher whilst were in Nepal and Namibia, if any one has any ideas or suggestion, please let us ...

After playing games with Logan in the large car park we headed towards a remote hilly area north of Agios Nikolaos. When we parked for lunch a car pulled alongside us to see if we were lost, the driver was Canadian, he told us he had come to Crete to escape the snow and was surprised to see so much here. We told him we were just having a lunch stop. The whole of this area feels very bleak, it's like being on a remote moor, every so often there are little hamlets, ...